JAMES D. FEARON
Geballe Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Department of Political Science
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6044
tel: 650 725 1314
email: jfearon `at' stanford.edu
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This webpage lists my publications and working papers, providing links to the papers where feasible. For published papers, in most cases you will need electronic access to JSTOR or the relevant journal.

You will also find replication data sets for analyses in some of the articles.

Last update: July 7, 2007.

Publications
Journal articles
  1. Iraq's Civil War. Foreign Affairs 86, 2 (March/April 2007), 2-16.
  2. Ethnic Minority Rule and Civil War Onset (co-authored with Kimuli Kasara and David Laitin). American Political Science Review 101, 1 (February 2007), 187-193.
  3. Primary Commodity Exports and Civil War. Journal of Conflict Resolution 49, 4 (August 2005), 483-507.
  4. Separatist Wars, Partition, and World Order. Security Studies 13, 4 (Summer 2004), 394-415.
  5. Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States (co-authored with David Laitin). International Security 28, 4 (Spring 2004), 5-43.
  6. Why Do Some Civil Wars Last So Much Longer Than Others? Journal of Peace Research 41, 3 (May 2004), 275-302.
  7. Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country. Journal of Economic Growth 8, 2 (June 2003), 195-222.
  8. Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War (co-authored with David Laitin). American Political Science Review 97, 1 (February 2003), 75-90.
  9. Selection Effects and Deterrence. International Interactions 28, 1 (January-March 2002), 5-29.
  10. Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity (co-authored with David Laitin.) International Organization 54, 4 (Autumn 2000), 845-877.
  11. Bargaining, Enforcement, and International Cooperation. International Organization 52, 2 (Spring 1998), 269-306.
  12. Signaling Foreign Policy Interests: Tying Hands versus Sinking Costs. Journal of Conflict Resolution 41, 1 (February 1997), 68-90.
  13. Explaining Interethnic Cooperation. (Co-authored with David Laitin.) American Political Science Review 90, 4 (December 1996), 715-35.
  14. Rationalist Explanations for War. International Organization 49 (Summer 1995), 379-414.
  15. Domestic Political Audiences and the Escalation of International Disputes. American Political Science Review 88 (September 1994), 577-92.
  16. Signaling versus the Balance of Power and Interests: An Empirical Test of a Crisis Bargaining Model. Journal of Conflict Resolution 38 (June 1994, Special Issue), 236-69.
  17. Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science. World Politics 43 (January 1991), 169-95.
  18. International Financial Institutions and Economic Policy Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Modern African Studies 26 (March 1988), 113-137.

Papers in edited volumes

  1. Economic Development, Insurgency, and Civil War. In Elhanan Helpman, ed., Institutions and Economic Performance. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, forthcoming.
  2. The Rise of Emergency Relief Aid. In Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss, eds., Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, forthcoming.
  3. Ethnic Mobilization and Ethnic Violence. In Barry R. Weingast and Donald Wittman, eds., Oxford Handbook of Political Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  4. Comments on A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility. In Ernesto Zedillo, ed., Reforming the United Nations for Peace and Security, Proceedings of a Workshop to Analyze the Report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change. New Haven, CT: Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, 2005.
  5. Two Questions about Ethnicity and Nationalism: Explaining Motivations versus Explaining Variation. A comment on Leonard Binder's essay in Edward Mansfield and Richard Sisson, eds., The Evolution of Political Knowledge: Democracy, Autonomy, and Conflict in Comparative and International Politics. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2004.
  6. Rationalism and Constructivism in International Relations Theory (co-authored with Alex Wendt). In Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth Simmons, eds., Handbook of International Relations Theory. London: Sage Publications, 2002.
  7. Electoral Accountability and the Control of Politicians: Selecting Good Types versus Sanctioning Poor Performance. In Bernard Manin, Adam Przeworski, and Susan Stokes, eds., Democracy, Accountability, and Representation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  8. Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy, and Theories of International Relations. Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 1. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, 1998.
  9. Commitment Problems and the Spread of Ethnic Conflict. In David Lake and Donald Rothchild, eds., The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
  10. Deliberation as Discussion. In Jon Elster, ed., Deliberative Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  11. Counterfactuals and Causation in Social Science: Exploring an Analogy between Cellular Automata and Historical Processes. In Philip Tetlock and Aaron Belkin, eds., Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Working Papers, Comments, Commissioned Reports, Testimony
  1. Fighting rather than Bargaining. To be presented at the 2007 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.
  2. Testimony before the U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, September 15, 2006. (On U.S. strategy in Iraq and implications of withdrawal.)
  3. Self-Enforcing Democracy. Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 31-September 3.
  4. Reforming International Institutions to Promote International Peace and Security. Prepared for the International Task Force on Global Public Goods. 6 January 2005.
  5. Catastrophic Terrorism and Civil Liberties in the Short and Long Run. Presented at a symposium on “Constitutions, Democracy, and the Rule of Law” held during Columbia University 's 250th anniversary celebrations, October 17, 2003 .
  6. Sons of the Soil, Immigrants and Civil War (co-authored with David Laitin). Mimeo, Stanford University. August 2002.
  7. Ordinary Language and External Validity: Specifying Concepts in the Study of Ethnicity (co-authored with David Laitin). Paper presented at the 2000 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 31-September 4.
  8. Why Use Elections to Allocate Power? Mimeo, Stanford University, May 2000.
  9. Weak States, Rough Terrain, and Large-scale Ethnic Violence. Paper presented at the 1999 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, September 1999.
  10. What is Identity (as We Now Use the Word)? Mimeo, Stanford University, November 1999.
  11. Why Ethnic Politics and "Pork" Tend to Go Together. Presented at an SSRC-MacArthur sponsored conference on "Ethnic Politics and Democratic Stability," University of Chicago, May 21-23, 1999.
  12. The Politicization of Cultural and Economic Differences: A Return to the Theory of Regional Autonomy Movements. Co-authored with Pieter Van Houten. Presented at the 1998 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Sept. 2-5, Boston, MA.
  13. Chunky Shoes: A Model of Style Choice and Fashion Trends with Implications for Understanding "Image" Advertising. Mimeo, June 1998.
  14. Bargaining over Objects that Influence Future Bargaining Power. Chicago Center on Democracy Working Paper, University of Chicago, 1995.
  15. The Offense-Defense Balance and War since 1648. Presented at the Annual Meetings of International Studies Association, Chicago, February 21-25, 1995.
  16. Ethnic War as a Commitment Problem. Presented the 1993 APSA Annual Meetings, New York.